wherefore

syy puhekieltä why Why, for what reason, because of what.
1920, (w), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1

"Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Romeo, O Romeo. Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. (Isaiah 30:12-13)

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Every why hath a wherefore.